hi all so, i'm wanting to test a website i made throughout a couple of browser versions. the website is not a single page, so websites like browser shots and the like cannot help me much. i have installed VWMPlayer so i can install a shit load of browsers (including IE versions). my question is, what browser versions are most commonly tested against? Where can i find such information?
Hi. Try StatCounter for that. My preference is: http://gs.statcounter.com/#all-browser_version-ww-monthly-201304-201403, though I usually pick only the latest versions for modern browsers. For IE, I would just go to my old PC and let IE.8 browse the page
First, I'd suggest using VirtualBox instead, it doesn't hijack the host OS like VMWare does. Since I'm on Win7 on the workstation (since 8 sucks, OSX is useless to me, and Linsux is a pathetically crippled trip in the wayback machine to 1993 on the desktop), I test all the latest local; I then like to have a win98 VM patched up as far as I can for IE6, a WinXP VM set up for true IE7, and an OSX VM for testing Safari and Firefox -- since Firefox rarely if ever renders the same on Quackintosh as it does Winblows. Likewise I have a few Linsux VM's set up since the train wreck of ineptitude known as "freetype" really needs to be reviewed given the disastrous rendering of webfonts, text kerning like a rhesis monkey on crack, and in general just plain piss poor font rendering. While at it, on OSX you should probably install the massively ridiculous multi-gigabyte monstrousity known as xcode, so you have the iPhone emulators available... since those are... quirky at best. Bottom line though, for anything other than IE, you're probably safe testing latest only so long as you've got graceful degradation in mind in your CSS. Testing IE, I say make it work perfect in IE10/newer, make it FUNCTIONAL in everything else. If you're wasting time trying to make it 'perfect' in IE9/lower, you're... well... wasting your time. If it's USABLE in the older IE's -- GREAT, that's all you need. They don't get some goofy visual bits like rounded corners and drop shadows -- OH WELL!